Pious Pursuits

by Gillespie, Michele; Beachy, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781845453398
• ISBN10: 1845453395
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Recent work on the history of migration and the Atlantic World has underscored the importance of the political economies of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the eighteenth century, emphasizing the impact of these exchanges on political relations and state-building, and on economic structures, commerce, and wealth. Too little of this work explores culture and identity outside the Anglo-American context, especially as reflected through religious developments of radical Pietists and other Germans, the second largest group of migrants to the American colonies in the eighteenth century. This volume offers a fresh vantage point from which to examine the Atlantic World. Quick to traverse the conventional political boundaries that divided European states and American colonies, Moravians departed their homeland to form new congregations in the most cosmopolitan European cities as well as on the North American frontier. Pious Pursuits explores the lives and beliefs of Atlantic World Moravians, as well as their communities and culture, and it provides a new framework for analysis of the Atlantic World that is comparative and transnational.

Table of Contents

The Birth of Moravianism: Confession and Culture
Imperial Communities	p. 23
Manuscript Missions in the Age of Print: Moravian Community in the Atlantic World	p. 33
Deep in the Side of Jesus: The Persistence of Zinzendorfian Piety in Colonial America	p. 50
Moravian Physicians and Their Medicine in Colonial North America: European Models and Colonial Reality	p. 65
Moravian Culture and Society: Identity and Assimilation
Fashion Passion: The Rhetoric of Dress within the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Brethren	p. 83
New Birth in a New Land: Evangelical Culture and the Creation of an American Identity	p. 97
"Commerce that the Lord could Sanctify and Bless": Moravian Participation in Transatlantic Trade 1740-1760	p. 113
Piety and Profit: Moravians in the North Carolina Backcountry Market 1770-1810	p. 127
Moravians, the Market and a New Order in Salem	p. 142
Race and Gender in the Moravian Church: A Protestant Exceptionalism?
"No one should lust for power ... women least of all.": Dismantling Female Leadership among Eighteenth-Century Moravians	p. 159
The Role of the Pastor's Wife in the Pioneering Generation of Protestant German-Speaking Clergy in the American Colonies	p. 176
Unlikely Sisters: Cherokee and Moravian Women in the Early Nineteenth Century	p. 191
Moravian Missions in Times of Emancipation: Conversion of Slaves in Suriname during the Nineteenth Century	p. 207
Slavery Race and the Global Fellowship: Religious Radicals Confront the Modern Age	p. 223
Moravians and the Challenge of Writing Global History of Diasporic Christianity	p. 239
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